Welcome to my blog. I document my adventures in travel, style, and food. Hope you have a nice stay!
All in music
Death Grips "Exmilitary" is the gritty flipside of The Weeknd's "House of Balloons": balls to the wall, groundbreaking, no compromise hip hop of the future.
So Arabia Mountain, produced by Mark Ronson, might to launch The Black Lips into mega-selling orbit. Wonder what they'll do with the money. I'm expetcting Michael Jackson-esque shopping sprees ("This sarcophacus is beautiful! It will go great next to my gold life-sized sculpture of Marlon Brando wrestling a Zebra!") and seriously exuberant hospital bills. Here's the first single: 'Modern Art' and it's very very good and for free (for now).
Yes, two of them. First, the official mixtape feat. M.I.A and Diplo and everyone else that'll make your hipster glands swell to dangerously large proportions. Second, the official prequel mix for FACT Magazine: less names, no less fun.
If you don't know about Mr. Gambino, you're late. I mean, Wikipedia says he has 6 aliases already (Cheezy, Bambino X, Bam-B, Sir Durton Cloud 9, Ms. Long-Lady Stanhope, and Bambini). And that's not even counting his real name he usues as an actor, writer (for 30 Rock) and stand up comedian, Donald Glover.
House of Balloons is my favourite mixtape of 2011 so far. It's actually a free, complete, unmissable album.Can't deny that artwork, either. Even their website is on point.
I've spent the last three days in the woods with no WiFi, reading actual books (on paper) and looking at squirrels chasing past my window. If you ask me "How are you doing?", my answer is: "I'll be fine." And I mean it, too.
It's fun. It's got a great beat, a chorus that goes like 'ho-oh-oh-ooh-ooh" (a 'sample' of New Kid's On The Block "The Right Stuff") and it rhymes 'faux pas' and 'je ne sais quoi' with oom-pa-pa.
The new Radiohead is not the smack in the face "In Rainbows" or "Kid A" turned out to be. It's not a stadium-filler like "OK Computer", either. What is it then? I dunno. A soundtrack for a fast ballooning head? Static fom the empty space inside your heart? I'm just guessing here.
The Rye Rye gig in Belgium last summer was one of the best things I'd seen all year. Her much-delayed RYEot powRR Mixtape is finally out, announcing the debut album. Almost 90 minutes of full-on rattling, rumbling, eardrum-piercing club bangers.
Smokey Robinson's original "Cruising", transfered directly from vinyl.
It's Gucci Time! Mad Decent drops a second instalment of the Free Gucci Mix Project with nuttin' but British remixers and guest MC's. Some fingerfacetattoolicking' good stuff here. Buuurrrrand new!
Let's see what we can... *folds* Whoa! A genuine rainbow pyramid vinyl.
